Yesterday Christians for Biblical Equality produced a list of various ways that churches can proactively address the problem of domestic violence both within congregations and the greater community. Rev. Anne O. Weatherholt, who is rector of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Maryland, […]

Every so often I become afraid that what I am doing with my life is totally irrelevant. It happened yesterday. I had shown up on the doorstep of the home of a hospice patient for a previously scheduled appointment. Only […]

Yesterday we took our new puppy, Roosevelt, to be neutered. (Now, with both a Carter and a Roosevelt for pets, we have a truly bipartisan household.) Our five-year-old son, after hearing our attempt at an explanation for why Roosevelt had […]

The below video appeared on Andrew Sullivan’s “The Dish“- another of Alan Watts’ transformative lectures set to pictures. It’s worth your two minutes watching it. Watts begins by posing this question to his students: “What if money was no object?” […]

The night Paul LaRuffa was shot five times in cold blood would have been like any other. He had closed up the restaurant and gotten into his car. That’s when “before I could start the car or do anything, the window […]

In his book, The Road to Missional, Michael Frost describes the experience of wandering through the Vatican Museum in Rome to stumble upon an eighth-century mosaic fragment that depicted Pope John VII wearing not a shiny, gold halo but a […]

Have any of you been following the news around the recent discovery of a fourth-century papyrus fragment that mentions Jesus’ wife? The veracity of the papyrus is apparently dubious at best; but this hasn’t stopped Harvard professor Karen King from […]

Once again, in the spirit of an Andrew Sullivan “mental health break,” today’s musical feature is Mumford & Sons’ cover song for their newly released album, Babel: like many of the band’s songs, “I Will Wait” has, I suspect, deeply […]

And, finally, my review of Rachel Held-Evans’ latest book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which aired on Sermons That Work two days ago and is reprinted here with the permission of The Episcopal Digital Network: If “biblical womanhood” were a rutabaga, then Rachel Held-Evans, […]

The other day a pastor friend asked if I’d like to help her preach on Stewardship Sunday. A kind but dubious invitation which I agreed to with a level of trepidation. That’s because anyone who has been around the church […]